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While speaking at an election rally in Behrampur city of Odisha, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that the state has been facing poverty because of loot by the Congress and then Biju Janata Dal for more than seven decades.  The prime minister made the statement while campaigning for the ruling BJP ahead of the state elections in Odisha which are being conducted alongside the general election.

There will be fair representation at this year’s Met Gala as we have another confirmed name with us. Hyderabad-based philanthropist and businesswoman Sudha Reddy has partnered with the Metropolitan Museum of Art and will be walking the red carpet. This collaboration will allow her to support the Museum's mission of celebrating art's power to inspire and connect people across cultures, further reflecting the Museum's commitment to diversity, inclusion, and global engagement.

Four men have been arrested after half a tonne of cocaine worth more than $50 million (40 million pounds) was found in a van in the car park of a Yorkshire village pub.  What we know about the case Around 500-kilogramme of cocaine – with an estimated street value of about more than $50 million – was found in the car park of the Stags Head Inn in Lelley in East Yorkshire, England, said the United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency (NCA). 

Hundreds of Cubans have been hired by the Russian military to fight in its war against Ukraine, a BBC report has claimed. Russia’s lucrative army contracts are what forcing nationals of the low-income country to join the army, for which they get about $2,000 a month. Some are also driven by the higher chances of getting a permanent residency or citizenship in Russia.

A 19-year-old person was allegedly beaten to death on Saturday (May 4) in Ferozepur district of Punjab, over 400 km north of New Delhi, after an alleged sacrilege incident.  According to police, Bakshish Singh, a resident of Talli Gulam village, allegedly tore some pages of a sacred religious text after entering a place of worship Bandala village of Punjab's Ferozepur.  The deceased person's father Lakhwinder Singh claimed that his son had been suffering from a mental illness and was receiving the treatment for the same, Press Trust of India reported.